Description: Troops watch helplessly as Chinatown burns and the flames continue to advance beyond, building by building. This same fire will climb Nob Hill that evening and destroy the mansions of San Francisco's wealthiest citizens.

Description: By late morning of the first day, downtown San Francisco began to burn as well.

138.

Title: Wagon diet. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060194.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: Huge fissures in the streets caused by the earthquake were a hazzard.

139.

Title: Wooden houses askew. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060195.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: The buildings most subject to destruction in the 1906 earthquake were the wooden structures built on the alluvial soil or landfill ground in city's eastern half (the majority of those citizens killed in the earthquake were in wooden, not brick, structures). The houses seen here would later serve as fuel for the conflagration that arose in the aftermath of the tremor.

140.

Title: Crowd of gawkers. -- The Hansen Collection -- 19060196.jpg

Owning Institution: The Museum of the City of San Francisco

Description: A large crowd of people on Market Street, mostly men, watch the flames consuming downtown San Francisco.